Chessie, Get Your Freak On!

I haven't really wrote about my particular breed yet, so I'll share a little skinny on Chesapeake Bay Retrievers.

We love to swim and are known for something called "water freaking." Any water that's deep enough will do for swimming in circles, while splashing with our paws, snapping at the splash, and yipping with rowdy abandon! And if you call us while we're freaking, it's like we're plugging our ears and saying "Lalalalalala-I can't hear you-lalalalalala."

Chessies can adopt this behavior as a bad habit, if humans don't nip it in the bud. Sometimes there's a gap between us learning to swim and finishing our basic training. That could be big trouble time. The solution is to tap into our retrieving work ethic. If we've got something to accomplish in the water, chances are we won't freak.

Here endeth the doggie lesson - woof!



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